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NLIHC released its annual report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, finding the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of approximately 7 million affordable and available rental homes. Drawing on multiple data sources, the report documents how the pandemic has exacerbated the…
NLIHC will release this year’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes on April 21. Published annually, the report examines the supply of rental homes affordable and available to households at different income levels in the U.S. and provides estimates of affordable housing needs for each state, the…
A journal article published in Housing Policy Debate, “‘The Rent Eats First’: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the United States,” examines renter cost-burdens using a residual-income approach, which estimates whether households have enough money left after paying rent and utilities to afford a…
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) held a hearing on March 8, “The Inflation Equation: Corporate Profiteering, Supply Chain Bottlenecks, and COVID-19,” addressing the causes of and solutions for growing financial pressure brought about by inflation and the…